"Mom, how did Yugi beat Kaiba?" "Well, in game one Kaiba bricked, because he undervalued consistency. He won in game two, because he drew a card that completely shut down Yugi's deck, but then in game three, Yugi drew a card that shut down KAIBA'S entire deck, and swung for game with Maxx "C". It was the worst match I've ever seen."
Especially as if he had just drawn for turn first he would have gotten Vorse Raider as an out. ...Every now and then the viability of Level 4 beatdown astounds me.
In all ways except physical this was a Jank episode DuelingNexus' bot has a deck that parodies Blue-Eyes' reputation for bricking, by having literally only BEWD
@@frankwest5388 But honestly all the times I've used it as a level 2 extender in Spright has convinced me that this stat line is just dumb on a hand trap.
Its stat line is so much better than other hand traps and that's extremely funny. Even its earth/insect typing ends up being super good for small world.
Earth Insect beatdown won me a game against a Runick Stun player that one time in MD. Also have normal summoned it to make Spright link 2 Spright rank 2 Downerd Zeus. Way too many times.
It’s weird to get a Jank episode on a Friday. Was still fun to watch. I had no idea there were so many anti light/dark floodgate monsters back in 2016.
My favorite part of this format was that when we eventually reached worlds, The Voices of Yugi and Kaiba(Dan Green and Eric Stuart respectively) voiced over a BEWD vs DM duel and I still love that fucking duel, it’s the best shit ever
Yugi and Kaiba really benefitted from this little thing called a *script*. I still try to force DM in Master Duel but damn do these decks suck at a competitive level and pretty much rely on taking opponents to the No Fun Zone to win. It didn’t come up but friggin’ Big Eye and Red-Eyes Flare Metal were just staring out from Extra Deck too.
Taking opponents to the no fun zone is basically what every competitive deck does in one way or another. Blue eyes and DM are just following the shitty modern competitive game plan like decks before and after them.
@@lightning2279exactly, don't tell these people though, they live in a reality where anime decks should be inherently unplayable in favor of their endless waifu Loli bullshit archetypes that get shoved down our throats worse than WWE pushes some of its stars
@@caesarsushi3238 I'd argue that counts, most decks win with the help of staple disruption cards. For example No one's getting far on pure Kastira with no non-archetypal cards. And most matches are carried on the backs of hand traps and counter traps. The big issue with DM Legendary Trio. Was the huge number of garnets they had. And lack of cards that generate advantage due to them being normal monsters. Would be nice if future support would help with cutting down the number of garnets to 3 or less.
@@sun332s7 What's weird is that I've seen more consistency from the "less optimized" variants that people would play on a more casual level online than these versions which were designed for competitive play. I guess it could just be the fact that anything being recorded for social media is prone to Murphy's Law, representing the flaws that casual players are liable to miss 🤔
Not only was Blue Eyes a better deck in this format, it is also currently a better deck. What do you mean we all knew what was going to happen? I'm pleasantly surprised to see the underdog win
@@homerman76 Decks take a while to get optimized, and in the case of a format like BEWD that is extremely short, pro-players didn't really had time to do that before the format got cracked open by newer better decks like ABC. Also worth noticing that pro-players, while good at piloting those decks, can also miss out a bunch of stuff that people who play mainly that one deck know. And as MBT said a bunch of times in both History and Jank, deck-building philosophies changed a lot with time, which made a lot of decks become better or worse than what they should've been realistically. You only really find out the best decks and their most optimized variants years after the format ends.
A much better time to play, hand traps were few and far between, Zoodiac hadn't arrived to ruin the game, and links were still far from coming to make the game nearly unrecognizable. I miss the era between 2012-early 2017
nah this format was just abc vs majespecter, these 2 decks were not relevant in history... blue eyes had the moment in worlds because all other decks were killed by the ocg banlist, and then it did few tops before abc was out for like 1 week. dark magician deck never ever have been relevant, it was probably a tier 2.5
@@alonsoarana5307 Shoutouts to 2012-14 trying to make restrictions in powerful effects that actually mattered and kept them on theme (Just forget Drulers, even if they were fun to mess with) I really do think abc and especially crystal wing (powerful control effects, statted like beatdown monsters) were the start of things I didn't like gameplay-wise. The art, themes and new lore all still rock though 👌
For those who don't know why MBT keeps referencing Eye of Timaeus, some cards have "(Monster Name)" but some have "(PART of a name) MONSTER" in their text. A card that says "Kuriboh" would only search for "Kuriboh" and nothing else, even if "Kuriboh" is part of its name. The only exception to this are cards that change their names like "A Legendary Ocean" which is always treated as "Umi. The text "Kuriboh MONSTER" on the other hand, can search for something like "Kuribohrn" because "Kuriboh" is part of its name, or that Kuribah, Boo, Beh, and Bee cards because their effects treat them as "Kuriboh MONSTERS". In fact "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" had to get its name changed because the hyphen technically made it a "Red-Eyes" card. Dark Magical Circle can add a card that lists Dark Magician by name ONLY, but the Timaeus card doesn't list Dark Magician by name, instead it says "Dark Magician MONSTER" because one of the fusion targets uses Dark Magician GIRL as a named fusion material. So even though Eye only works with fusion monsters with specific names as materials, it ITSELF does NOT explicitly _mention_ said materials, and thus can't be added by Eye of Timaeus. It's particularly infuriating because aside from the Dark Magician Girl fusion, literally every existing Fusion monster that requires a "Dark Magician Monster" is just "Dark Magician".
@@pandahero9464 "I play stun skill drain decks" If you want people to help you, maybe don't say something that will make them *despise* you halfway through?"
@@pandahero9464tldr if a card said "add a "Fallen of Albaz" monster" it wouldn't count as a card that lists fallen of albaz because it's listing an archetype, not a card name, despite the card name being the name of the archetype.
As someone who literally got back into Yugioh at this time and built Dark Magician, while my friend built Blue-Eyes, this is how a lot of our duels ended up.
I don't care how this match went. The fact that we get to see Blue-Eyes vs Dark Magician is what I had wanted to see for so long and I am so happy that we got a chance to see it. I love both of these decks and I am so happy to experience this. Thank you both for being the amazing duelist you are and for a great game :D
I hope you guys feature dark magician again in jank, I played it around this time at ycs Liverpool and got featured in the coverage as I was 4-0 going into round 5. Didn’t end well but the build was very different from Jeff’s using a 45 card list and a lot of draw spells. I brought a similar list back during the Spyral tier 0 format a year or so later and topped a regional with it. Def some more mileage to be made from the magicians.
So here's my question. When the time comes, since duel links became a real thing also speed duels, would we be seeing a duel links/speed duel episode of history?
I always enjoy looking at the deck profiles and seeing how many cards in a deck are no longer legal, or were not at one point, I find it gives a better perspective of just how strong a deck was. All this to say both of these decks dont really abuse anything op, and dm doesnt even use soul charge. These decks are cool and based, but clearly their cores are less abusable then previous decks. Nearing when I picked yugioh back up right before code of the duelist, honestly a format I think was pretty good although short and ended abruptly with circuit breaks tier 0 threat
dark magician has always been my favorite archytype. the whole mood of occultism mixed wirh classical stage magic is just so cool. pulling rabbits out if hats and consulting mysterious magic circles while some lime green skinned Houdini wiggles his finger at you for falling for his slight of hand trick. I really think it has a lot of thematic gold if it commited to the magic performance thing a but more.
@@BmanTheChamp bruh, I'll red-eyes fusion into dragoon play circle set eternal soul and pass, that's a great turn one field bruv. also we have bunch of other DM searchers that can make this very very consistent, it'll be broken if it was in 2016
Your mistake was expecting them in this episode specifically, the one featuring two notoriously bricky decks where, even before sided-in hate, bricking arguably meant you can't play the game
For me at least, DM in mid-2016 was very powerful. Especially with pairing up with floodgates and the Windwitch package to make Crystal Wing, turn 1 and maybe other synchros such as Omega. Not to mention floodgates such as Summon Limit and Skill Drain to slow the game down.
The issue with DM for the most part and even in this era aswell is just that other archetypes do their job and then some. Yes it mightve been a decent 7/10 with these specific cards in this era but iirc that was around the time fossil dyna stun decks where pretty much at their height aswell as other stun strategy which ended up being maybe a 8/10 or 9/10 aswell as alot of decks just splashing in wind witches because holy shit was that a great engine at the time. The deck never really gets great enough to overshadow the other options but also never feels unplayable. Its always like decent but not the best choice which ofc makes it see little play in tournaments
Its just too bricky even with all the draw cards to support it, decks in this era had a crazy amont of consistency so decks like dark magician while fine rogue decks at the local level were blown out of the water by things like metalfoes or ABC, and then soon after that Zoodiac came out putting the final nail in the DM coffin
0:57 MBT's Deck: Dark Magician 6:28 Cimooooo's deck: Blue-Eyes 9:49 Game 1 11:20 BRICK-EYES WHITE DRAGON!! 15:25 Game 2 19:26 Game 3 23:17 just one turn
Ycs Bochum Format is coming soon, so im really hyped! I have 9 Decks of this Format readily built to Play at Home. Please Touch upon the price Card dynamic around Minerva and giant Hand which basically allowed lightsworn to be a competitive Deck for people who had Access to those cards
I don't care what other people say this is the best episode ever especially with Dark Magician my favorite Ace Monster. I look forward to seeing Dark Magician with the 2020 support in Jank
I was playing Buster Blader in this format and had an absolute field day. if you went up against kirin you had 0 game, but against these two decks which dominated everything else. you get to use the archetypal super poly and either got to make skill drain+gravity bind on a usually 10K body, or you got to make Anti-Spell fragrance on legs. Probably my favorite time in yugioh.
MBT joked about using Arkana's art, but i really think it fits the archetype more. Of course the archetype will use the colors of the main character, but Yugi never really cares for Dark Magician as a named card and main strategy, he uses it as a toolbox and beatstick, prefering to piece together solutions over having a consistent archetypal deck. Arkana openly embraced Dark Magician as a playstyle and a lot of DM support still refers to magicians practices(Illusion Magic, for example) rather than "real" spellcasting, so in my mind a Dark Magician deck really evokes Arkana more than Yugi.
We're getting the authentic brickeyes experience here. The only reason it was top tier for so long in duel links is due to Kaiba's skill, which gave you a free poly to go into twin burst when you bricked.
Sometimes it’s better to leave old dogs lie, instead of trying to turn them into contest winning hounds. DM and BE will always be the two dogs barking at eachother from the fence saying who’s better,or why this should be my territory.
The best part of Ally of Justice Quarantine is how it curbstomped the Vtuber Kaiba event Konami did for Duel Links, they even got Eric Stuart involved and everything 😂
Eternal Soul is such an overly fair card. Giving your monsters protection for the insane price of losing to MST is an absolute joke and is the entire reason why Dark Magician will never be good even with the insane amount of draw it has these days
@@arobnugzo6818 You do realize a lot of the dm players who have topped multiple regionals consistently played 2dm. If you’re gonna be a jerk fine, but don’t you dare downplay the hard work they put into making the deck work.
@@ConductorElcrest sorry man, didn't wanna offend. It was supposed to be a joke but it is hard to convey that over the net. I don't even know how to play DM at that level, I would trust them to have the correct ratios ofc. Cheers.
This didn't play out as well as they hoped but it does show the main weakness these decks had. Way too many high lv garnets. Not enough quick effects to provide continuous disruption.
Illusion Magic didn't special summon game 1. It tributes Dark Magician to search. Then Magician of Dark Illusion triggers to special the Dark Magician from grave. They should have played out that sequence for clarity sake
Lore accurate result, doubly so since Draw Sense: Beatstick is on full force. You'd think it would be a good thing...in any deck other than 3000 ATK Bricks the deck.
I wonder if anyone tech'd in Night's End Sorcerer at this time? It was really playable with DM in Duel Links & may have done the deck good at this time.
I remember playing a DM deck like this when I started playing the game in 2018. It was SO bad. Like SO bad. Like I never attacked for game once BAD. I only won games when my YGOPro opponent got pissed off and left.
"Mom, how did Yugi beat Kaiba?"
"Well, in game one Kaiba bricked, because he undervalued consistency. He won in game two, because he drew a card that completely shut down Yugi's deck, but then in game three, Yugi drew a card that shut down KAIBA'S entire deck, and swung for game with Maxx "C". It was the worst match I've ever seen."
😂😂😂
Honestly, this was pretty much Quarantine, or Koa'ki meiru lockdown.
you obviously havent seen an ojama mirror match
my favorite moment in season 1 is when yugi summoned ally of justice quarantine and kaiba jumped off pegasus' castle
Especially as if he had just drawn for turn first he would have gotten Vorse Raider as an out.
...Every now and then the viability of Level 4 beatdown astounds me.
In all ways except physical this was a Jank episode
DuelingNexus' bot has a deck that parodies Blue-Eyes' reputation for bricking, by having literally only BEWD
Dark Magician the greatest deck of all time, lets go!
Edit: DuelingNexus bot has a consistent decklist of DM and BEWD, best decks ever created!
Iconic jank though 😂
I want exactly these 2 decks in a future history of jank episode for a revenge match
what a crossover! :D
What is BEWD?
23:01
MBT: "with no monsters left on Cimo's field, I'll summon maxx c and attack for game."
GG.
A win by a brick, a win by a brick + a floodgate, and a win by a brick + floodgates. That sure was a match of all time.
This matchup looks exactly the same if these two decks were to play in the current format LMAO
Yugioh as Kazuki Takahashi intended
Sounds like a normal game in Master Duel
The match up these two decks deserved.
A miserable one?
About damn time.
@@quasnof "you're miserable!"-Keanu Reeves 8v
Ouch that hurts a bit. Its just depressing.
Light based decks: *exist*
The one random Ally of Justice card: "Now it's my time to shine."
I really hope yall end up doing the dark magician girl deck in jank
maxx C being the final blow is just humiliating
This is why it’s banned
@@frankwest5388 But honestly all the times I've used it as a level 2 extender in Spright has convinced me that this stat line is just dumb on a hand trap.
Its stat line is so much better than other hand traps and that's extremely funny. Even its earth/insect typing ends up being super good for small world.
Earth Insect beatdown won me a game against a Runick Stun player that one time in MD.
Also have normal summoned it to make Spright link 2 Spright rank 2 Downerd Zeus. Way too many times.
It’s weird to get a Jank episode on a Friday. Was still fun to watch. I had no idea there were so many anti light/dark floodgate monsters back in 2016.
Brick-Eyes vs. Dork Magician, one of the duels of all time.
This marked the start of Blue-Eyes stealing Galaxy-eyes cards for itself.
The Ally of Justice Quarantine summon is a 2023 moment for me thus far, especially Cimo's reaction to it.
Man got floodgated for his entire life savings immediately after doing the same thing
Joseph: You should play 3 pot of desires.
Joseph later: *draws 3 pot of desires in opening turn*
Still wins the game so maybe he was onto something
My favorite part of this format was that when we eventually reached worlds, The Voices of Yugi and Kaiba(Dan Green and Eric Stuart respectively) voiced over a BEWD vs DM duel and I still love that fucking duel, it’s the best shit ever
I was more hyped at the RP duel Tsuda Kenjiro(Kaiba's JP voice) and Kazama Shunsuke(Yugi's JP voice) did during jumpfes iirc
Yugi and Kaiba really benefitted from this little thing called a *script*. I still try to force DM in Master Duel but damn do these decks suck at a competitive level and pretty much rely on taking opponents to the No Fun Zone to win. It didn’t come up but friggin’ Big Eye and Red-Eyes Flare Metal were just staring out from Extra Deck too.
Sad thing is that the current power level of it in master duel would have been pretty strong had spright not released at the same time.
Blue-eyes Jet control is playable, but that is more an engine to play trap cards rather than winning with the Blue-eyes cards
Taking opponents to the no fun zone is basically what every competitive deck does in one way or another. Blue eyes and DM are just following the shitty modern competitive game plan like decks before and after them.
@@lightning2279exactly, don't tell these people though, they live in a reality where anime decks should be inherently unplayable in favor of their endless waifu Loli bullshit archetypes that get shoved down our throats worse than WWE pushes some of its stars
@@caesarsushi3238 I'd argue that counts, most decks win with the help of staple disruption cards. For example No one's getting far on pure Kastira with no non-archetypal cards. And most matches are carried on the backs of hand traps and counter traps.
The big issue with DM Legendary Trio. Was the huge number of garnets they had. And lack of cards that generate advantage due to them being normal monsters. Would be nice if future support would help with cutting down the number of garnets to 3 or less.
The scripted duel between Dan Green and Eric Stuart during worlds 2016 was a better showing of this matchup
As much as I love the Blue Eyes Deck, we all knew what was going to happen when it went up against Dark Magician.
Both decks are kinda hot ass and rely on the other legitimately bricking. DM is by all means just bricky as BEWD.
@@sun332s7 What's weird is that I've seen more consistency from the "less optimized" variants that people would play on a more casual level online than these versions which were designed for competitive play. I guess it could just be the fact that anything being recorded for social media is prone to Murphy's Law, representing the flaws that casual players are liable to miss 🤔
@@sun332s7 True, but DM is a stall deck, so...
Not only was Blue Eyes a better deck in this format, it is also currently a better deck. What do you mean we all knew what was going to happen? I'm pleasantly surprised to see the underdog win
@@homerman76 Decks take a while to get optimized, and in the case of a format like BEWD that is extremely short, pro-players didn't really had time to do that before the format got cracked open by newer better decks like ABC. Also worth noticing that pro-players, while good at piloting those decks, can also miss out a bunch of stuff that people who play mainly that one deck know.
And as MBT said a bunch of times in both History and Jank, deck-building philosophies changed a lot with time, which made a lot of decks become better or worse than what they should've been realistically. You only really find out the best decks and their most optimized variants years after the format ends.
So what I got from this is that not only is it undefeated but Dark magician will stay undefeated in history of
This episode made me realize just how crazy 2016 was. Truely the wild west of yugioh
All before the Zoodiac nation attacked.
A much better time to play, hand traps were few and far between, Zoodiac hadn't arrived to ruin the game, and links were still far from coming to make the game nearly unrecognizable. I miss the era between 2012-early 2017
nah this format was just abc vs majespecter, these 2 decks were not relevant in history... blue eyes had the moment in worlds because all other decks were killed by the ocg banlist, and then it did few tops before abc was out for like 1 week. dark magician deck never ever have been relevant, it was probably a tier 2.5
@@alonsoarana5307 Shoutouts to 2012-14 trying to make restrictions in powerful effects that actually mattered and kept them on theme (Just forget Drulers, even if they were fun to mess with) I really do think abc and especially crystal wing (powerful control effects, statted like beatdown monsters) were the start of things I didn't like gameplay-wise. The art, themes and new lore all still rock though 👌
For those who don't know why MBT keeps referencing Eye of Timaeus, some cards have "(Monster Name)" but some have "(PART of a name) MONSTER" in their text.
A card that says "Kuriboh" would only search for "Kuriboh" and nothing else, even if "Kuriboh" is part of its name. The only exception to this are cards that change their names like "A Legendary Ocean" which is always treated as "Umi. The text "Kuriboh MONSTER" on the other hand, can search for something like "Kuribohrn" because "Kuriboh" is part of its name, or that Kuribah, Boo, Beh, and Bee cards because their effects treat them as "Kuriboh MONSTERS". In fact "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" had to get its name changed because the hyphen technically made it a "Red-Eyes" card.
Dark Magical Circle can add a card that lists Dark Magician by name ONLY, but the Timaeus card doesn't list Dark Magician by name, instead it says "Dark Magician MONSTER" because one of the fusion targets uses Dark Magician GIRL as a named fusion material. So even though Eye only works with fusion monsters with specific names as materials, it ITSELF does NOT explicitly _mention_ said materials, and thus can't be added by Eye of Timaeus. It's particularly infuriating because aside from the Dark Magician Girl fusion, literally every existing Fusion monster that requires a "Dark Magician Monster" is just "Dark Magician".
Any1 have the tldr version? Sorry I play stun skill drain decks, I hate reading pend cards
@@pandahero9464 "I play stun skill drain decks"
If you want people to help you, maybe don't say something that will make them *despise* you halfway through?"
Dude Im playince since +10 years and I didn't know all of this!, thanks!, it was a very clear explanation.
@@pandahero9464tldr if a card said "add a "Fallen of Albaz" monster" it wouldn't count as a card that lists fallen of albaz because it's listing an archetype, not a card name, despite the card name being the name of the archetype.
As someone who literally got back into Yugioh at this time and built Dark Magician, while my friend built Blue-Eyes, this is how a lot of our duels ended up.
Cimo's reaction to flipping Dark Hole off the top of the deck after the match was great lol
Truly the best games of yugioh I've ever seen, I loved it
Now this is gonna be a Duel of a lifetime.
Nono, it’s 3 duels
didn't age well
0:55 Deck List / Breakdown
10:55 Duels
Ty for always putting the times down, it shows me where to start skipping ahead to where the duel actually starts, 11:40 first play.
Ah yes Jeff Jones' singular DM top. The only evidence the DM playerbase needed to convince themselves their deck was meta for the next like, 4 years.
We all know what the anime would do, Kiba has Yugi on the ropes Yugi pulls the win out of thin air with the power of the heart of the cards.
I don't care how this match went. The fact that we get to see Blue-Eyes vs Dark Magician is what I had wanted to see for so long and I am so happy that we got a chance to see it. I love both of these decks and I am so happy to experience this. Thank you both for being the amazing duelist you are and for a great game :D
I have a feeling that when History of Jank reaches this era it will be very interesting
I hope you guys feature dark magician again in jank, I played it around this time at ycs Liverpool and got featured in the coverage as I was 4-0 going into round 5. Didn’t end well but the build was very different from Jeff’s using a 45 card list and a lot of draw spells. I brought a similar list back during the Spyral tier 0 format a year or so later and topped a regional with it. Def some more mileage to be made from the magicians.
So here's my question. When the time comes, since duel links became a real thing also speed duels, would we be seeing a duel links/speed duel episode of history?
I always enjoy looking at the deck profiles and seeing how many cards in a deck are no longer legal, or were not at one point, I find it gives a better perspective of just how strong a deck was. All this to say both of these decks dont really abuse anything op, and dm doesnt even use soul charge. These decks are cool and based, but clearly their cores are less abusable then previous decks. Nearing when I picked yugioh back up right before code of the duelist, honestly a format I think was pretty good although short and ended abruptly with circuit breaks tier 0 threat
dark magician has always been my favorite archytype. the whole mood of occultism mixed wirh classical stage magic is just so cool. pulling rabbits out if hats and consulting mysterious magic circles while some lime green skinned Houdini wiggles his finger at you for falling for his slight of hand trick.
I really think it has a lot of thematic gold if it commited to the magic performance thing a but more.
"Mom, I want Kaiba and Yugi."
"We have Kaiba and Yugi at home."
Kaiba and Yugi at home.
Some people were asking why Konami never did this kind of thing again last episode, this seems like good proof of why.
I am waiting in anticipation for when someone desires and banishes every single one of their engine pieces
I wish back then Dark Magician had the same support that it does now
It's good but, and this is speaking as a guy who loves DM, I still don't think it'd be that good.
@@BmanTheChamp bruh, I'll red-eyes fusion into dragoon play circle set eternal soul and pass, that's a great turn one field bruv. also we have bunch of other DM searchers that can make this very very consistent, it'll be broken if it was in 2016
JUNIOR JOURNEY REFERENCE!
Game 1: Brick
Game 2: Floodgate
Game 3: Floodgate and Skill Issue
Cimo on brick eyes and MBT just doing shenanigans with maxx c on game 1 and 3.
Idk why after all this time, i was expecting epic back and forths
Your mistake was expecting them in this episode specifically, the one featuring two notoriously bricky decks where, even before sided-in hate, bricking arguably meant you can't play the game
History of Yu-Gi-Oh! episode wins
Cimoooooooo: 66
MBT: 60
This was an episode. That's all I can say.
For me at least, DM in mid-2016 was very powerful. Especially with pairing up with floodgates and the Windwitch package to make Crystal Wing, turn 1 and maybe other synchros such as Omega. Not to mention floodgates such as Summon Limit and Skill Drain to slow the game down.
The issue with DM for the most part and even in this era aswell is just that other archetypes do their job and then some. Yes it mightve been a decent 7/10 with these specific cards in this era but iirc that was around the time fossil dyna stun decks where pretty much at their height aswell as other stun strategy which ended up being maybe a 8/10 or 9/10 aswell as alot of decks just splashing in wind witches because holy shit was that a great engine at the time. The deck never really gets great enough to overshadow the other options but also never feels unplayable. Its always like decent but not the best choice which ofc makes it see little play in tournaments
Its just too bricky even with all the draw cards to support it, decks in this era had a crazy amont of consistency so decks like dark magician while fine rogue decks at the local level were blown out of the water by things like metalfoes or ABC, and then soon after that Zoodiac came out putting the final nail in the DM coffin
It's bricky and it hard loses to Twin Twister and random Rank 4's such as Castel. Also the Windwitch stuff came out in 2017 when Zoo was dominating.
Didn't DM run the Spellbook engine back then too?
0:57 MBT's Deck: Dark Magician 6:28 Cimooooo's deck: Blue-Eyes
9:49 Game 1 11:20 BRICK-EYES WHITE DRAGON!!
15:25 Game 2
19:26 Game 3 23:17 just one turn
Ycs Bochum Format is coming soon, so im really hyped! I have 9 Decks of this Format readily built to Play at Home.
Please Touch upon the price Card dynamic around Minerva and giant Hand which basically allowed lightsworn to be a competitive Deck for people who had Access to those cards
darn quarantine
Man glimpsing at the decklists, Breakthough skill brings back traumatic memories for me.
The dark magician deck builder was allergic to 3 ofs
20:52
"Gage's Greatest Ally" takes away a humble bricklayers freedoms, in the name of "safety"
Mystic7 sleeves.
With no monsters left on the field, I summon Dark Magician. Declare a direct attack.
remember what MBT said about people siding floodgates for g2 and g3? Yeah he may have a point.
I don't care what other people say this is the best episode ever especially with Dark Magician my favorite Ace Monster. I look forward to seeing Dark Magician with the 2020 support in Jank
Is this an off schedule History of Jank episode?
Oh man I sure do love floodgates!
Game 1: Thrilling gameplay of bricks
Game 2: FLOODGATES!
Game 3: FLOODGATES!
Dark Magician vs Brick-Eyes.
Dark Magician best deck! Lets go!!!
History of Jank (October 2016) came early
HA
We don't call it Brick-Eyes White Dragon for no reason.
I was playing Buster Blader in this format and had an absolute field day. if you went up against kirin you had 0 game, but against these two decks which dominated everything else. you get to use the archetypal super poly and either got to make skill drain+gravity bind on a usually 10K body, or you got to make Anti-Spell fragrance on legs. Probably my favorite time in yugioh.
Max C is great Dark Magician support
Yep, that's about what i expected to happen.
I never thought I’d see the day that Joseph plays DM. Especially after showing off Metalfoes/Majespecter.
I believe he played DM in Dzeef's Roulette series too.
Whoever thought putting the fabled catsith in brick eyes and use it as a cost for galaxy soldier clearly didnt know the rules
Weird to see 2021 Duel Links gameplay rather than TCG meta deck back-and-forth on the history of Yu-Gi-Oh.
I see we've reached the point where scientists got stumped by Nirvana High Paladin...
I was searching for this
MBT joked about using Arkana's art, but i really think it fits the archetype more. Of course the archetype will use the colors of the main character, but Yugi never really cares for Dark Magician as a named card and main strategy, he uses it as a toolbox and beatstick, prefering to piece together solutions over having a consistent archetypal deck.
Arkana openly embraced Dark Magician as a playstyle and a lot of DM support still refers to magicians practices(Illusion Magic, for example) rather than "real" spellcasting, so in my mind a Dark Magician deck really evokes Arkana more than Yugi.
this is my favorite episode
I'm starting to see why they call it blue eyes white brick
Classic Yugi vs Kaiba gameplay, where one of them bricks to hell or they floodgate each other out of the game 🥴
I really hope that they will show off Dark Matter Rulers, the last ride archetype ever gets before Rulers get completely axed.
Rulers were already all banned a year and a half before this.
They already passed the time of that, I hope it shows up in jank at least lol
We're getting the authentic brickeyes experience here. The only reason it was top tier for so long in duel links is due to Kaiba's skill, which gave you a free poly to go into twin burst when you bricked.
Yeah that was pretty underwhelming but love how Cimoooos real-life protagonist luck carries on lol his luck is mindblowing everytime.
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Another reason why Maxx C is banned.
Sometimes it’s better to leave old dogs lie, instead of trying to turn them into contest winning hounds.
DM and BE will always be the two dogs barking at eachother from the fence saying who’s better,or why this should be my territory.
The best part of Ally of Justice Quarantine is how it curbstomped the Vtuber Kaiba event Konami did for Duel Links, they even got Eric Stuart involved and everything 😂
I'll never understand why Eternal Soul has that "lose the game" clause for when it gets popped lol
edit: not that it ever came up here 💀
I thought this would be a fun episode but then we had to sit in quarantine.
Felt like I was watching a bulked up Duel Links deck profile from both people today.
Why did the lion spit out the clown? Because it tasted funny.
Cimo should be playing Dark Magician since he's got protagonist powers.
2023 and Yugi is still the King of Games.
Great first episode of History of Duel Links.❤
CAN MBT PUT HIS CARD SLEEVES ON THE OTHER WAY AROUND
WE CANT SEE THEM
I’ve been waiting for this to happen !
Any episode that ends with Normal Summon Max C is automatically a jank episode.
Found it WAAAY too funny when Joseph used maxx C in response in game 2
Eternal Soul is such an overly fair card. Giving your monsters protection for the insane price of losing to MST is an absolute joke and is the entire reason why Dark Magician will never be good even with the insane amount of draw it has these days
Yes the Yugi vs Seto, battle city finals that should've been
God it's so strange to see 3 DM when 2 DM is now commonly agreed to be just outright optimal and 3 is just bad.
Back then it makes sense because the deck had basically nothing except Circle plus Eternal Soul.
It is "commonly" agreed cuz y'all are commoners unlike the king of games who topped with 3 DMs. :-)
@@arobnugzo6818 You do realize a lot of the dm players who have topped multiple regionals consistently played 2dm. If you’re gonna be a jerk fine, but don’t you dare downplay the hard work they put into making the deck work.
@@ConductorElcrest I think he's joking. I could be wrong though.
@@ConductorElcrest sorry man, didn't wanna offend. It was supposed to be a joke but it is hard to convey that over the net. I don't even know how to play DM at that level, I would trust them to have the correct ratios ofc. Cheers.
This didn't play out as well as they hoped but it does show the main weakness these decks had. Way too many high lv garnets. Not enough quick effects to provide continuous disruption.
Game 1 Illusion Magic special summons, game 2, it adds to hand. Hmmmm
Illusion Magic didn't special summon game 1. It tributes Dark Magician to search. Then Magician of Dark Illusion triggers to special the Dark Magician from grave.
They should have played out that sequence for clarity sake
DM Best Deck
What happens when Konami forces a deck, and then players drag out all the worst cards you have ever seen the counter it.
Lore accurate result, doubly so since Draw Sense: Beatstick is on full force. You'd think it would be a good thing...in any deck other than 3000 ATK Bricks the deck.
Alternative Title: Brick-Eyes vs. Brick Magician
Fabled Catsith in Blue Eyes is pure cope
say it with me now, SEALED PLAYOFFS!!!
I wonder if anyone tech'd in Night's End Sorcerer at this time? It was really playable with DM in Duel Links & may have done the deck good at this time.
I remember playing a DM deck like this when I started playing the game in 2018.
It was SO bad. Like SO bad. Like I never attacked for game once BAD.
I only won games when my YGOPro opponent got pissed off and left.
2018? A few years behind the curve, you were...